This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

The "Mystery and Company of Merchant Adventurers" is an Elizabethan-era hangout in Moscow.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

Stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures.

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Semi-precious Blue John stones have been mined in this cavern system for centuries.

The only electricity pylon under whose legs you can go by boat.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Venice's island of the dead.